Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-11

pauelled and pictured and glorified will
all the splendors that the infinite God il
all the ages has been able to invent
Victory!
This view of course makes it of but littl,
Importance whether We are
cREMATED OR sEPULTURED.
If the latter is dust to dust, the former i.
ashes to ashes. II any prefer incarceration
| LET them have il without caricature. The
world may become so crowded that erema
tiOn may be universally adopted by law q.
we'll as by general consent Many of the
mlghtiest and best spirits have gone
through this process. Thousands and tens
of thousands of Gods children have beer
cremated-P. p. Bliss and wife, the evan
gelistic singers, cremated by accident a;
Ashtabula Bridge; John Rogers, Cremated
by persecution; Latimer and Ridley, Gre
mated at oxford; Pothinus, aud Blandina,
slave, and Alexander, a physician, and
| their comrades cremated ut the order oI
! Marcas AuIelius-at least hundred thou.
sand of Christ's diciples cremated-and
there can be 10 doubt about the resurrec.
ton of their bodies. If the world lasts as
much longer rs it has already been built,
there perhaps may be no room for the
large acreage set apart for the resting
places, but that time has not come. Plenty
of room yet, and the race need not pas
that bridge of fire until it comes to it. The
most of us prefer the old way. But
whether out of natural disintegratiOn OF
cremation we shall get that luminous,
| buOyant, gladstone, transcendent, magniti-
cent, inexphcable structure called the
resurrection body, You will have it,
will have it. | say to you to,
day, as Paul said to Agrippa: "Why
should it be thought thing incredible
with you, that God should raise the
dead?" The far-up cloud, higher than
eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops OF
water from the Hudson, other drops from
the East river, other drops from stagnant
pool ont on Newark flats-upyonder there,
embodied in q cloud and the sun kindles
it. flood can make such lustrOus cloud
out of water drops, many of them sOiled
and impure and fetched from miles away.
can he not transport the fragments of hu-
man body from the earth and out of them
build radiant body? Cannot God, who
owns all the material out OF which bones
and muscles and flesh are made,
SET THEM Up AGAIN
if they have fallen? It manufacturer of
telescopes drop a telescope on the floor
and it breaks. can he not mend it again so
you can see through it again? And if God
drops the human eye into the dust the
eye which he originally fashioned, can He
not restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer
of the telescope by change of the glass
and change of focus can make better
glass than that which was originally CON
structed and actually improve it, do you
you not think the fashiOner of the human
eye may improve the sight and multiply
the natural eye by ten thousand addi-
tiOnal forces of the resurrection eye.
why should it be thought with You an
Incredible thing that God should raise the
dead?n Things all around us suggest it,
Out of what grew all these flowers? Out
of the mould and the earth. Resurrccted!
RcsurTeCtcd The radiant butterfly,
where did it come from2 The lOathsome
caterpillar. That albatross, that smitcs
the tempest with its wing, where did it
come from? senseleSs shell. Near
! Bergerse, France, in Celtic tomb under
n block were found flower seed that had
been buried two thousand years. The eX-
plorer took the flower seed and planted
it, and it came up; it blOOmed in
bluebell and heliOtrope. Two thousand
years ago buried, yet resarrected. A trav-
| allar hn tnnn1 IN IL r,it n
| Egypt garden peas that had been buried
there three Thousand years AGO. He
brought them out and on the 4th of Jnne,
1851 he planted them, and in thirty days
| they sprang mp Buried three thousand
wears, yet rcsurrected. "Why should it
he thought thing Incredible with you
that God should
RAISE THE DEAD?'
Where did all this silk come frOm-thc
| silk that adOrns your persons and homes?
| In the hollow of a staff "A Greek mission
ary brought from China tO Europe the
prOgenitors of those worms that now sup
ply the silk markets of many nations. The
peasantry of hammered host and the luXu-
rious articles of commercial emporium
blazing ont from the silk worms. And
who shall he surprised if out of this insig-
nifcant earthly brdy, this insignificant
earthly life, our bodies unfold into some
thing worthy of the ceming eternities:
Put silver into diluted nitrc and it dis.
solves. Is the silver gone forever? No,
Put in some pieces of copper and the sill
yer reappears- II one force dissOlves an.
other force organizes.
''Why should it he thought thing in
credible with yOu that God should raise
the dead?" The insects few and the
worms crawled last autumn feebler and
feebler, and then stopped. They have
taken no food, they want none. They lay
dormant and insensible, but soon the south
wind will blow the resurrection trumpet
and the air and the earth will he full Ot
them. DO you not think that God can dc
as much for our bodies rs He does for the
waSps and the spiders and the snails? Thi.
morning, at half-past four o'clock, there
was a resurrection. Ont Of the night thu
day. In few weeks there will he a res
direction in all our gardens. Why nO
some day a resurrection amid all thu
graves?
Ever and anon there are instances o
men and women entranced.
A trance is death followed by resurrec
tiOn after a few days; total suspen sion o.
mental power and voluntary action. Rev
William Tennent, great evangelist of the
last generation, of whom DR.. Archibald
Alexander, a man far from being senti
mental, wrote in most eulOgistic terms
Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. Hi:
spirit departed. People came in day after
day and said: HE is dead, he is dead. =
| But
THE SOUL THAT FLED RETURNED,
and William Tennent lived to write out
the experiences of what he had seen while
his soul was gone. Ii may lie found some
time that what is called suspended anima
| tiOn or cOmatOse state is bTief death, Civ
| ing the soul an excursion into the neXt
world from which it comes back, fur
Tough Of few hours granted from the con
| tlict OF life to which it must return. Dc
not this waking up of men from trance
and this waking up of insects from winter
lifelessness, and this waking up of grain:
buried three thousand years ago
make 1t easier for you to be